“In the immediate aftermath of the horrific Charlottesville march and neo-Nazi melee, the mainstream media turned mainly to male historians for comment – just as they always have…. “But then a funny thing happened…. A bevy of women historians submitted op-eds….The [Washington] Post alone featured seven on its new history page, Made by History…. [Another] ran on the […]
Posts Tagged ‘charlottesville va’
UNCC prof leads women historians onto op-ed pages
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged charlottesville va, karen l cox, women historians on August 23, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
A colorful public life that began on a chandelier
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged albemarle magazine, charlottesville va, eaton brooks, hamptons house parties, mark macnamara on December 21, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
Eaton Brooks, the UNC sophomore whose drunken chandelier-swinging at a 1964 Hamptons house party earned him a trip to court and attention in the national press, has been a longtime occupant of my “Whatever happened to…” list. This 1980 profile in Charlottesville’s Albemarle magazine answers that question in rich detail, at least up to his […]
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